Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

In short: Access to great deals, ability to be invited to invest in these deals, ability to see where value in a market will be created and the luck to back the right team with the right market at the right time all matter. So if you truly want to be great at investing you need all the right skills and access AND a diversified portfolio.

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Dream It

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Most founders consider two possibilities when thinking about their exit strategy: IPO or acquisition. When considering a possible acquisition of your company, try to figure out where you could add value to a prospective acquirers strategy. The VC you're bringing on board should consist of people who you want to work with.

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Y Combinator

JULY 15, 2019

One of the most common questions we hear from founders is “How do I manage my board?” It’s something that provokes anxiety, because this is the first time the founder/CEO is subject to external supervision, and the board has powers that include the firing of the CEO and the senior management. But first, what’s the purpose of a board?

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Feedough

APRIL 9, 2021

It is gaining momentum each day as more companies are investing in this sector. These advertisements are a component of above the line advertising strategy that is largely non-targeted and has a wide reach. These generally consist of large print ads displayed on high elevated boards. Construction Advertising.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2019

I’m going to focus this post around the concept of a “board dinner” or “board lunch” since this is part of a series around how to more effectively run board relationships but most of these tips can be broadly applied. Why a Board Dinner (or Lunch)? Managing a board is a bit like flying?—?the

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2016

I want to talk about a specific type of meeting today — a Board Meeting — but this could easily apply more broadly. A find many board meetings highly unproductive in that they are often just a date in the calendar where management is set to update its investors and other board members of its performance over the past time period.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 23, 2012

I've only recently started leading investments a little over two years ago. My track record of leading deals consists of only seven investments, luckily no zeros (knock on wood) and one exit. So much of this is gut feel with a thin later of strategy retrofitted to seem more than random. I mean, what do I know?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

A new foreign investment bill will impact venture capital and the US startup ecosystem. However, the demographic composition of junior investment professionals reflects greater diversity and wider adoption of diversity-focused talent management and recruitment practices suggest some cause for optimism. More posts by this contributor.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

We are fortunate to have leadership that have masterminded strategies utilizing public and private funding, along with a stellar regional foundation (Danville Regional Foundation, or DRF) to slowly work this puzzle out. We knew that when her fellowship ended, we needed to bring someone on board who was solely focused on this work.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 11, 2022

In 10 years of venture investing I don’t think I’ve ever participated in a seed round which had less demand than supply. Some angels are what I’d call Type O Negative in that they are so universally beloved and dynamically useful that we’d welcome them into *any* investment. Best Practices In Marking & Comms Are Highly Extensible.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Companies like John Deere are investing a lot in homegrown solutions and acquisitions. There was a time that Katerra was considered the darling of the construction tech world. Some argue it made prefab construction more mainstream — and cool. It even got some Y Combinator startups on board. Image Credits: Katerra.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

I have been writing a series on how startup boards get selected, who sits on them and what to avoid. I started this series in part to help entrepreneurs but also to help newer investors because I’ve know with so many new companies you have so many new board members and many people are trying to figure out there respective roles.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Harris says that, with any investment (particularly at the early stage of a company), the decision really comes down to the team and more importantly, the founder. Harris took a seat on the board. Though its monthly revenue growth charts were up and to the right, it had not even broken the $100,000 mark. He’s a systems thinker.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

While new fund announcements are certainly exciting, the fund may already be partially invested through and investors need to make capital calls before writing those checks. Pinterest lays off 150 people as a part of its ‘long-term strategy’ Is Instagram considering paid verification? Now his competing app Spill is funded.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

.” The reason is that at a VC you have a group of partners who often have different focus areas of excellence, each pursues deals in their respective field, each makes investments and sits on boards and each spends their most difficult hours tackling problems at portfolio companies vs. solving the challenges at the VC itself.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

That includes over $50 million from Goldman Sachs to help back the company’s green building financing, as well a $30 million investment from Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund. To this point, the company has raised over $100 million. Donnel Baird, CEO and founder at BlocPower. Image Credits: BlocPower. Getting off the ground.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 28, 2023

Sage launched its first fund in 2019 and has actively evangelized for the RFC model of investment in many gatherings across the country since then. Why are so many angels expressing interest in RFC and when might RFC investments be appropriate as part of a portfolio of angel investments? But not all 10X returns are the same.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Victoria Pettibone is managing partner of Astia Fund, a program of Astia , a global organization that invests in women-led companies. There is a growing body of articles about the important issue of the lack of investment dollars flowing to Black women founders. Share on Twitter. Sifted reported the number in the U.K. to be 0.24%.

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Red Rocket

MAY 11, 2021

Constructive and actionable feedback can be hard to come by. This annual evaluation is meant to be completed by the CEO, their direct reports and the board members in an anonymous 360 aggregated review. It’s purpose is honest feedback to facilitate awareness and constructive discussion. Good news is not exaggerated.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Top investment opportunities Startup of the Week: DayTwo’s precision nutrition combats diabetes, chronic diseases NeuReality raises $35M Series A co-led by OurCrowd Kando to service 22 French municipalities Meeting again, for real OurCrowd meets Great Neck mayor, investors NASA awards ICON $57.2M Sealed Air Corporation invests $8M in Highcon.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Transportation editor Kirsten Korosec reached out to 10 investors to learn more “about the state of mobility, which trends they’re most excited about and what they’re looking for in their next investments.” Rachel Holt, co-founder and general partner, Construct Capital. Shawn Carolan, partner, Menlo Ventures. Fifteen U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

This round brings the total investment in Aurora Labs to about $100 million. Xpeng Robotics , a bionic robot maker affiliated with Xpeng , raised $100 million in a Series A round led by IDG Capital, at a time when venture investments are slowing in China. Existing investor Porsche Automobil Holding SE and Colmobil Corp.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Strategies to cultivate a community, iterate with an audience and convert it into a customer base Photo: Unsplash In today’s hyper-competitive, fast-paced digital world, it seems like everyone and their smartphone-savvy grandmother is developing a mobile app. In this article, we’ll discuss some of the best strategies for doing that.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 4, 2022

Having a real conversation with a potential customer shows you’re invested in their success and is the best way to build trust. You haven’t incorporated constructive feedback. Perhaps you have to adjust your product or even go back to the drawing board. You haven’t earned your customer’s trust. ©2018 by Forbes Media LLC.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

But for my sins I got an MBA and did “strategy&# consulting. In 1999 I was in Japan doing a strategy project for the board of directors of Sony. The problem of amplification: The problem got worse as the data flowed out to the “bulge bracket&# investment banks. It was originally COBOL and DB2 – so what?

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 12, 2021

These natural disasters directly impacted the production of plastics materials and resins that are used in the health care industry (think face shields and sharps containers), manufacturing industry (especially automotive and technology) and the construction industry (PVC in particular). Invest in materials requirement planning (MRP).

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Go 1st, create a feedback-loop, build trust / rapport, and invest in the relationship. Hot Tip: create a Miro board mapping all of the efforts and use this to keep your team in check. Not knowing the personalities the best way to get everyone on board is to play therapist. Zig when others are zagging. Chemistry?—?Finals.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 9, 2021

Consequently, your first concern here should be to check whether you are making adequate investments in fixed costs, particularly staffing, to enable your team to realize the sales volumes and capture the market share you are targeting. Fixed costs provide the underlying infrastructure necessary to run your business.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Honestly, and even before you get to outreach, I talk a lot to our entrepreneurs about being precise, like: what is your referencing strategy? There’s a certain way to do this that is constructive and that actually adds to the process rather than causes friction and problems. And is it okay if I do that without you knowing?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Concreit , a company that wants to open real estate investing to a broader group of people, announced today that it has closed $6 million in a seed funding round led by Matrix Partners. . Similarly, Levy says he grew up watching his parents build a small construction business from scratch. Concreit raised the capital at a $22.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

In addition to the usual story roundup, I’ve asked a small cross section of investors a simple question with a complex answer: How will the SVB events impact robotics investing and startups? Of course, many — or even most — of the firms investing in those companies have strong presences in the South Bay and/or SF.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 23, 2021

The more baked you are, the more investable you are. The best possible move is to invest in and warehouse some special purpose vehicles that fit your strategy. The next best move is to build your core team, e.g., recruit an Advisory Board, Venture Partners, and EIRs. We are using Digify to manage this.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

The data revolution in partnerships Sarah Wang: That’s incredibly exciting and definitely part of our investment thesis in investing in Crossbeam. And then we would deliver it in dashboards and charts that were also constructed on technology we built. And that is absolutely transformational and huge. Quite the contrary.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 23, 2021

The more baked you are, the more investable you are. The best possible move is to invest in and warehouse some special purpose vehicles that fit your strategy. The next best move is to build your core team, e.g., recruit an Advisory Board, Venture Partners, and EIRs. We are using Digify to manage this.

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FundersClub

JUNE 30, 2017

" EquipmentShare is the most well-funded construction tech startup in Missouri, which has seen 5% of total US construction tech deals, in " New Build: Construction Tech Deal Pace Slows Slightly After Steady Rise. Want to invest in the best startups? " Investor Thoughts. Not a subscriber to FC weekly?

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Gust

AUGUST 26, 2012

Martin Yate, in his recent book “ Knock ‘em Dead – Secrets and Strategies for Success in an Uncertain World ” succinctly outlines the key criteria for choosing mentors: Mentoring is not a group activity. Telling it straight means having direct discussions that are constructive, respectful, and specific.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 15, 2022

Startup of the Week: NeuReality: Slashing AI costs across the board. Invest Now. Constructing facilities using this cutting-edge technology saves labor costs, reduces planning time and increases the speed of construction of future facilities,” says Army Lt. Construction is expected to take 10 months.

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